Category Archives for science is beautiful
Easy and short writeups about frontier and interesting science. Science can be everybody’s.
James Webb
12/19/21 Almost every final, I asked students to write a Haiku about our class. Glad to see how many students wrote that they had fun or learned a lot in the class. I used to think only surgeons can change … Continue reading
Gödel’s incompleteness theorem and Russell’s paradox
4/18/21 My favorite picture lately: the blue sunset on Mars! I heard that the Uranus’s sunset is turquoise! Some of the fun intellectual moments: listen to smart people to explain difficult movies, and discuss math theorems/astrophysics. I recently watched Tenet, … Continue reading
What do we know about the climate change?
11/29/20 Ames area only has this little crack on the ground for our poor people to do elevated hikes. When the weather is nice, everybody comes. After “hiking”, it feels like “ah, this is a nice parade” 🙂 I had … Continue reading
Extraterrestrial life
9/20/20 fall is a good time for hiking, picnic and watch the stars! the weather is great here lately, but the sky isn’t clear, maybe due to the west coast fire?! I am looking forward to seeing some nebula one … Continue reading
Star Party
9/29/19 I have tried so hard to write the live post a while ago that my laptop even was broken down during my writing, lol. So, my dear experts audience, here I am again 😀 The weather was not that … Continue reading
How to eliminate invasive species?
6/30/19 I went to a “standup science” the other day. It is so exciting to see that many people come to ask interesting questions and want to participate discussions outside the university environment. Yes, science should be for everybody! According … Continue reading
What’s special about the human brain?
Human brain is not bigger than, e.g., the elephant’s brain, but we are smarter than elephants because the proportion of brain/body matters. Chimpanzees and humans have a similar size body and brain. But according to wiki, human beings have 86 … Continue reading